Raspberry Pi Foundation announces a new, small-and-modular form factor

Posted Apr 18, 2014 19:49 UTC (Fri) by hamjudo (guest, #363)
In reply to: Raspberry Pi Foundation announces a new, small-and-modular form factor by PaulWay
Parent article: Raspberry Pi Foundation announces a new, small-and-modular form factor

Every interface on the chip is brought out to the edge connector with correct impedance matching. This is an easy way to get a system with 2 high speed camera interfaces for stereo computer vision projects.

I can only see one application for these for parallel computing, but it is a big one. Imagine a classroom or teaching lab where every student has their own 4 node cluster for developing and testing homework. Advanced parallel projects can be tested on larger clusters. It would be easy to experiment with different network topologies and performance levels (just not the highest performance levels).

Students could write and test fault tolerant parallel code, as it is easy to create an environment where network links, and processor nodes can be enabled and disabled at will.